What I meant by the contradictory statements was scientists who think the earth may be cooling down versus those who think it's warming up. It just seems the press makes announcements saying like one of the guys here in the thread mentioned, the decline of pirates contributed to climate change. What troubles me was the way the article was titled, suggesting there is a definite link when it's more of a possibility. I think speculation can be good, but I don't think it makes good news. If it survives rigorous scientific analysis by the scientific community and is generally accepted by people in the field, then I think that would be worthy of news. It seems there's a flurry of media activity when it comes to climate change, and I wonder how much of that is meant to be sensational and how much is meant to be informational.
I think the researchers are suggesting there *may* be a relationship. It's tough to say anything concrete when researchers/scientists propose a theory making headline news and then someone else throws an idea out either suggesting another cause or contradicting a previous announcement. So far, among the many factors I've heard about ocean salinity, magnetosphere reversal, jet contrails, fossil fuels, green house gases. A lot of it seems more speculation than anything. Maybe it's just me.
Those were 1st person perspective, but I think the original comment was talking about 1st person like we would see in a shooter. I recall in ultima having to aim spells at targets.
Just like DVD's initially with their encryption, I'm sure someone will figure out a way around these new DRM issues. But that didn't happen to DVD's until a while after it got popular. About the price... can't avoid that - new stuff always costs more.
That's very true. Format-specifics don't mean a lot to the consumer - it should be more important to the distributor/manufacturer since they're the ones that deal with format-issues - like either wanting to give more content to the consumer or dealing with manufacturing costs/problems.
These are basically reviewing the quality of the players and the quality of the transfers. If you went into a shop and wanted the best looking picture, you wouldn't go by the format/codec is, you'd go by what would give you the best video/audio.
If both formats can provide similar experiences, wide adoption is more important. I think HD DVD will win because I think it is the cheaper and easier alternative. I say this because the manufacturing costs are lower, the player is cheaper, movies (hybrid dvd's aside) are cheaper, and there's a larger collection of HD DVD movies. All things, I think, are pointing to HD DVD since it's the path of least resistance. I think people are wishy-washy because they know they know Bluray to be the larger, albeit more expensive, of the two formats. HD DVD's are ultimately a better compromise and a more realistic successor to standard DVD's. For mass adoption, we basically need to think about middle america. I think Bluray is coming off as a upper-end product where HD DVD is much closer to the middle. Whomever gets closest to the meat of the market first will win - it's ultimately based on who has the movies and who has the cheaper player.
Also, I just thought I'd mention Dune will be coming out on HD DVD sometime this year supposedly, so I'm looking forward to it.
This technology isn't completely revolutionary. Starbridge Systems has taken fractal arrays of programmable chips to help developers/scientists automatically tune chips to help run their algorithms run faster. Most of their clientele is in R&D, pharm, and defense.
www.starbridgesystems.com
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What I meant by the contradictory statements was scientists who think the earth may be cooling down versus those who think it's warming up. It just seems the press makes announcements saying like one of the guys here in the thread mentioned, the decline of pirates contributed to climate change. What troubles me was the way the article was titled, suggesting there is a definite link when it's more of a possibility. I think speculation can be good, but I don't think it makes good news. If it survives rigorous scientific analysis by the scientific community and is generally accepted by people in the field, then I think that would be worthy of news. It seems there's a flurry of media activity when it comes to climate change, and I wonder how much of that is meant to be sensational and how much is meant to be informational.
I think the researchers are suggesting there *may* be a relationship. It's tough to say anything concrete when researchers/scientists propose a theory making headline news and then someone else throws an idea out either suggesting another cause or contradicting a previous announcement. So far, among the many factors I've heard about ocean salinity, magnetosphere reversal, jet contrails, fossil fuels, green house gases. A lot of it seems more speculation than anything. Maybe it's just me.
Those were 1st person perspective, but I think the original comment was talking about 1st person like we would see in a shooter. I recall in ultima having to aim spells at targets.
I thought Ultima Underworld was the first true first-person-perspective action RPG.
Just like DVD's initially with their encryption, I'm sure someone will figure out a way around these new DRM issues. But that didn't happen to DVD's until a while after it got popular. About the price... can't avoid that - new stuff always costs more.
That's very true. Format-specifics don't mean a lot to the consumer - it should be more important to the distributor/manufacturer since they're the ones that deal with format-issues - like either wanting to give more content to the consumer or dealing with manufacturing costs/problems.
These are basically reviewing the quality of the players and the quality of the transfers. If you went into a shop and wanted the best looking picture, you wouldn't go by the format/codec is, you'd go by what would give you the best video/audio.
If both formats can provide similar experiences, wide adoption is more important. I think HD DVD will win because I think it is the cheaper and easier alternative. I say this because the manufacturing costs are lower, the player is cheaper, movies (hybrid dvd's aside) are cheaper, and there's a larger collection of HD DVD movies. All things, I think, are pointing to HD DVD since it's the path of least resistance. I think people are wishy-washy because they know they know Bluray to be the larger, albeit more expensive, of the two formats. HD DVD's are ultimately a better compromise and a more realistic successor to standard DVD's. For mass adoption, we basically need to think about middle america. I think Bluray is coming off as a upper-end product where HD DVD is much closer to the middle. Whomever gets closest to the meat of the market first will win - it's ultimately based on who has the movies and who has the cheaper player. Also, I just thought I'd mention Dune will be coming out on HD DVD sometime this year supposedly, so I'm looking forward to it.
This technology isn't completely revolutionary. Starbridge Systems has taken fractal arrays of programmable chips to help developers/scientists automatically tune chips to help run their algorithms run faster. Most of their clientele is in R&D, pharm, and defense. www.starbridgesystems.com